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4. lost, at a loss, at sea, confused, perplexed, puzzled; astray, stray, wandering, homeless.
adroit, adj.1. dexterous, ambidextrous, deft, handy, neat, Brit. Dial,
feat; nimble, agile, active, quick, rapid, brisk, swift, lively; facile, ready, proficient, adept, skillful, skilled, experienced, Fr. au fait. 2. clever, ingenious, inventive, resourceful; shrewd, Archaic, parlous, Inf.cute; cunning, canny, guileful, subtle, artful, crafty, slick; sagacious, astute, keen, acute, sharp, sharp-witted, sharp as a tack, quickwitted; apt, smart, witty.
adroitness, n.1. dexterity, ambidexterity, deftness, sleight, sleight of hand, legerdemain; nimbleness, agility, quickness, rapidity, briskness, swiftness, liveliness; handiness, right-handedness, neatness; skillfulness, skill, faculty, knack, talent; finesse, felicity, readiness; artistry, craft, proficiency, adeptness, address, mastery, expertness.
2. cleverness, ingenuity, ingeniousness, inventiveness, resourcefulness; shrewdness, cunning, canniness, guile, subtleness, artfulness, craftiness, Inf.cuteness; sagaciousness, sagacity, astuteness, keenness, acuteness, sharpness, sharp-wittedness; aptness, smartness, wittiness.
adulate, v. 1. worship, hero-worship, idolize, adore, worship the ground [s.o.] walks on, stand in awe of; deify, put on a pedestal; (all to an excessive degree)
praise, glorify, exalt, extol.
2. fawn, toady, truckle, toadeat, flatter, puff, inflate, SI.play up to, SI.suck up to, SI.shine up to, apple-polish, SI.butter-up, SI.brown-nose; lickspittle, SI.bootlick, court, pay court to, curry favor, dance attendance upon.
3. kowtow, bow, bow and scrape, stoop, crouch; kneel, fall at the feet of, prostrate oneself; grovel, crawl, slither, worm, creep, squirm.
adulation, n.1. worship, hero-worship, idolization, adoration, deification; glorification, exaltation, extolment.
2. sycophancy, toadyism, toadeating, tufthunting, flattery, lip-homage, lip-service, Rare,
blandation; cajolery, blandishment, blarney, palaver, Inf.soft-soap, Inf.sweet talk, Inf.honeyed words, SI.line, SI.snow job, Archaic, gloze.
3. servility, slavishness, obsequiousness, obsequence, subservience, Obs.vernility; prostration, obeisance, abjection, self-abasement.
adulator, n.toady, toadeater, sycophant, flatterer, fawner, fawning flatterer, truckler, tufthunter, courtier, backslapper, timeserver, apple-polisher, SI. brown-nose, Archaic, pickthank; flunky, lackey, yes-man, jackal, bootlick, lickspittle, Uncle Tom, SI.oreo; worshiper, hero-worshiper, idolizer, kowtower, groveler.
adulatory, adj.1. sycophantic, toadyish, toad-eating, flattering, fawning, truckling, ingratiating, timeserving, SI.bootlicking, SI.apple-polishing, SI. brown-nosing; unctuous, oily, buttery, candied, honeymouthed, smooth-talking, smooth-tongued, sweet-talking.
2. servile, slavish, obsequious, subservient, Obs., Rare,
vernile; submissive, docile, compliant, acquiescent, Uncle Tomish, tractable, mealy-mouthed; prostrate, obeisant, on one's knees; groveling, crawling, creeping, slithering; kowtowing, stooping, bowing and scraping.
adult, adj.1. mature, grown-up, full-grown, fully grown, grown; of age, at the age of consent, at the age of majority; ripe, ripened, fully developed.
2. (of schools)
postgraduate, night, evening.
3. (of movies and literature)
X-rated, pornographic, obscene.
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